AMD dualcore Athlons revealed

[Akherousin]

the power of X...

It's no big secret that AMD is scheduled to launch its dual-core Server and professional workstation Opteron processors later in the year.

However details of what's set to be let loose to hunt down Intel's recently announced Pentium Extreme Edition 840 have, up till now, been well hidden...

HEXUS can exclusively reveal that the CPU is to be named the AMD Athlon 64 X2

It will be available at least in the following models:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+

Our source in Greenbriar also confirms that AMD currently has no plans to introduce 'FX' variants of its dual-core desktop processors.

The flagship AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ will have both its cores operating at 2.4GHz, the same frequency as the AMD Athlon 64 4000+, and we'll be surprised if this doesn't rape the already impressive Pentium Extreme Edition 840 we reviewed here.

Source: http://www.hexus.net/#AMD-dual

Sounds amazing. B)

[Hasse]

I like it!

[Psycho Pigeon]

Can some one define dual core and what it can give?. :rolleyes:

[Akherousin]

It's basically two cpu-cores on one chip. So you have the same advantages as other dual provessor systems, but only use one cpu (think of it as two cpus in one).

[KamisoriX]

makes the whole chip much hotter during operation. I would have like dual 64 motherboard than 1 chip double boosted.
But then again I never liked AMD. got the hype machine FX 53 back then and it sucked so bad I was dehydrated for weeks :D

[SprigganX]

Originally posted by KamisoriX@Apr 16 2005, 10:43 PM
makes the whole chip much hotter during operation. I would have like dual 64 motherboard than 1 chip double boosted.
But then again I never liked AMD. got the hype machine FX 53 back then and it sucked so bad I was dehydrated for weeks :D
Maybe because you stick with crappy pc's?

[-Deadly-]

Hmmm, could be interesting :unsure:

[uLLved]

AMD is teh teahat! :clap: :clap: :clap: